# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-willard-gibbs-sr
# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:21:46.445Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-willard-gibbs-sr"
name: "Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr."
slug: "josiah-willard-gibbs-sr"
description: "Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr. was an American linguist and theologian, who served as professor of sacred literature at Yale University. He is remembered mainly for his involvement with the Amistad case and as the father of theoretical physicist Josiah Willard Gibbs."
tagline: "American linguist and theologian 1790-1861"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JosiahWillardGibbsSrFullLength.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1790-04-30"
deathDate: "1861-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.2051282051282051
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     20
  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Willard_Gibbs_Sr."
    title: "Josiah Willard Gibbs Sr."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations